Catch me if you can: free-living mice show a highly flexible dodging behaviour suggestive of intentional tactical deception

R d'Isa, MH Parsons… - Royal Society …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Intentional tactical deception, the employment of a tactic to intentionally deceive another
animal, is a complex behaviour based on higher-order cognition, that has rarely been …

Individual-specific strategies inform category learning

JS Collina, G Erdil, M **a, CF Angeloni, KC Wood… - Scientific Reports, 2025 - nature.com
Categorization is an essential task for sensory perception. Individuals learn category labels
using a variety of strategies to ensure that sensory signals, such as sounds or images, can …

Extinction burst could be explained by curiosity-driven reinforcement learning

K Yamada, H Matsui, K Toda - BioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Curiosity encourages agents to explore their environment, leading to learning opportunities.
Although psychology and neurobiology have tackled how external rewards control behavior …

Novel and optimized mouse behavior enabled by fully autonomous HABITS: Home-cage Assisted Behavioral Innovation and Testing System

B Yu, P Li, H Xu, Y Wang, K Xu, Y Hao - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Mice are among the most prevalent animal models used in neuroscience, benefiting from
the extensive physiological, imaging and genetic tools available to study their brain …

Revealing hidden knowledge in amnestic mice

A Santi, S Moore, KA Fogelson, A Wang, J Lawlor… - bioRxiv, 2025 - biorxiv.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a form of dementia in which memory and cognitive decline is
thought to arise from underlying neurodegeneration. These cognitive impairments, however …